Wikipedia Equality

WikiEqual (formerly Wikipedia Equality)

This is a collection of articles published by the WikiEqual (formerly Wikipedia Equality) Movement, a movement dedicated to improving female and minority representation on Wikipedia. The reform of the Notability criteria is our current central focus. All articles are available under CC BY-SA.

These articles are aimed at starting a discussion around WikiEqual (formerly Wikipedia Equality), and they represent the ideas of those who want reform, and want to make reform possible. The opposing arguments are also dealt with in most articles.

Ideas

• Why there is an Urgent Need for a Wikipedia Equality Movement
• Sustained Interest is the Key to Success for Wikipedia Equality
• Wikipedia’s Notability Policy: What is it and Why It Must Go
• Challenging Wikipedia’s Notability Policy: A Comprehensive Framework for Discussion

Solutions

• Recommendations for Wikipedia Equality, Version 1.0
• Challenging Wikipedia’s Notability Policy: A Comprehensive Framework for Discussion
• Wikipedia Equality Notability Discussion Paper #1: Maintaining Encyclopedic Scope
• Wikipedia Equality Notability Discussion Paper #2: Preventing Advertising
• Wikipedia Equality Notability Discussion Paper #3: Verifiability and NPOV

Values

• The Fundamental Reason why Wikipedia Equality must Oppose the Notability Criteria
• Wikipedia Equality won’t be silenced by Trivialization and Ad-Hominem Attacks.
• Wikipedia’s Notability Policy: What is it and Why It Must Go

People

TaraElla

TaraElla is a classical liberal writer. She started the Wikipedia Equality project in April 2017. She is a Wikipedian herself.

Values

TaraElla believes in the equality of people regardless of gender, ethnicity or sexual orientation. She believes that only classical liberal values will advance this equality, and to achieve liberty and equality, gatekeeping should be removed as much as possible throughout society. Note that, in TaraElla's articles, 'liberal' means classical liberal, 'social justice' has its classical liberal meaning, and 'feminism' means classical feminism, i.e. that of 19th-century thinker John Stuart Mill, for example.

Wikipedia Equality

TaraElla believes that Wikipedia Equality can only be achieved if the Notability Criteria is abolished. This stems from her belief that any gatekeeping is detrimental to true equality and inclusion.